How to Recognize Plagiarism

Practice

Practice 9 of 10

Please read the original source material carefully and then select the entry,
either "A" or "B," that you think has not been plagiarized.

Original Source
Material: Media experiences equal human experiences .... People's
responses show that media are more than just tools. Media are treated
politely, they can invade our body space, they can have personalities
to match our own, they can be a teammate, and the can elicit gender stereotypes.
Media can invoke emotional responses, demand attention, threaten us, influence
memories, and change ideas of what is natural. Media are full participants
in our social and natural world.

Source: Reeves,
B., & Nass, C. (1996). The media equation: How people treat computers,
television, and new media like real people and places. Cambridge,
MA: Cambridge University Press.

A)
Reeves and Nass (1996) describe many experiments they have carried out
to test the theory that people interact with media as if it were other
people. They have shown in multiple ways that even when people know objectively
that images of people on television screens are not real, or that computers
are machines instead of human beings, we treat these things as if they
were real -- were human.

References: Reeves,
B., & Nass, C. (1996). The media equation: How people treat computers,
television, and new media like real people and places. Cambridge,
MA: Cambridge University Press.

B)
People interact with media as if it were other people. Even when people
know objectively that images of people on television screens are not real,
or that computers are machines instead of human beings, we treat these
things as if they were real -- were human.

Your
choice "A" was correct.

This example has been
paraphrased and is not considered plagiarized. The student has cited the
original author and included an appropriate entry in the reference list.